Researchers find new way to attack gastro bug

Griffith Sciences
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Griffith University researchers have discovered a potential way to create an antimicrobial drug that would stop one of the world’s most prevalent foodborne bugs causing gastroenteritis in humans. A team at Griffith’s Institute for Glycomics identified a unique sensory structure that is able to bind host-specific sugar and is present on particularly virulent strains of […]

Conservatorium and ballet pair up for first time

Queensland Conservatorium and Queensland Ballet members
Inside Griffith
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The Queensland Conservatorium is pairing up with the Queensland Ballet for a sell-out song and dance spectacular 'Music and Dance' is a ballet-lovers dream, with the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony and Queensland Ballet dancers performing excerpts from beloved classics like Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty.

Engineering students work on Vanuatu cyclone-proof housing

Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy
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Griffith University engineering students have been helping rebuild a cyclone-devastated area of Vanuatu as part of a program designed to embed in them in real world construction. Griffith’s fourth-year civil engineering students completing their final year industry affiliates program (IAP) recently travelled to an area devastated by Cyclone Pam in 2015. It is part of […]

Five minutes with…Kaye Broadbent

Business and government
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WOW’s Dr Kaye Broadbent wants to shine a light on the employment conditions of those who are vulnerable and oppressed. Her research works towards affecting positive change by highlighting the ways in which people’s lives can be improved through equitable and just employment conditions. We caught up with Kaye to learn a little more about […]